Name: Michele Velthuizen <michele@ash.nl>
Age: F 38
Mass: 70 kg
Size: 172 cm
Bikes: Nop's Special 785 (SWB USS); Michele's City-Bike (ASS). For local shopping still using 20 year old typical (very heavy) Dutch regular bike with baskets in front and back.
Rides: 5000 km/year commuting to work. Together with Nop undertook a 2-year journey on recumbents in the USA, Japan and Korea of some 40000 km length; wrote it up in the book "Pedalling Unknown Paths" (ISBN: 0 86332 958 6 Classfn: Travel). Ian Bob sez check it out.
Where: The Hague, The Netherlands
Works: Translator from/to Japanese and Korean; Adm. Dept of the American School in The Hague
Likes: cats, kites, arguing with my sister in Japanese, so husband is kept in the dark, husband Nop in that order (i.e. hobbies other than recumbency ;-)) Otherwise: www.euronet.nl/users/nop
Climbs: special memories of Beartooth pass (Montana, USA); Timmiljoch pass in the Italian Alps. So achievements would score 4.5, but climbing speed perhaps only 2 or 3.
Crash: not surveyed
Beard: NO, nice long weavy hair though.

Name: Nop Velthuizen <nop@euronet.nl>
Age: M 37
Mass: 80 kg
Size: 170 cm
Bikes: own-design and make compact SWB USS, suspended in the rear, several models over the years
Rides: 5000 km/year, varies greatly year by year. Depends on type of footwear that's en vogue among the recumbent cyclists in Holland. Present trends favour bias toward thick rough knitted grey wool socks combined with brown sandals!! (called "geitenwollensokken looks" )
Where: Den Hague, The Netherlands
Works: professsional kite designer; aiborne photography expert; recumbent bike builder; wind buggy tamer: www.euronet.nl/users/vliegop
Likes: knocking down walls, removing entire floors in houses, so they can be remodelled acc. to Japanese custom; among other things.
Climbs: 4 to 5 (I like climbing even though there are no mountains available in Holland).
Crash: not surveyed
Beard: YES
              
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